Category Archives: Events

World Arthritis Day~ Do Blue!

Today, the internet is all abuzz over anything regarding Arthritis.  If you are on Twitter,  there is a “Twitter Party” going on where you can submit questions to the Arthritis Foun......

No matter where I go, there you are~

I have been followed around by lupus for over a decade now, but there are still times when I actually expect to be able to fly solo.  In comparison to many people living with this disease, I am ......

Putting it out there

Today begins National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week 2010.  For the entire week, I will be posting mini-posts including photos that bring a little more visibility to how I view living ......

Incognito No More

For my contributions for Invisible Illness Awareness Week  this year, Leslie  at Getting Closer To Myself and I are collaborating on a fun little project with our goal being to make the invisibl......

Birds of a feather~Do we flock together?

Ah, Fall.  My favorite time of year.  One would think that, living in Oregon,  having a respite from gray, rainy weather would be something I would want to hold onto as long as possible.  The t......

A Cautionary Tale

For this next edition of Patients For a Moment (July 28th), hosted by Queen of Optimism on her blog, she presents the question: “What is the nicest thing (or things) anyone has done for yo......

Scleroderma Foundation OR Chapter on AM Northwest This Thursday

  I received a note from the Oregon Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation that they will once again be on our own KATU Channel 2 AM Northwest morning show!  This Thursday,July 1st, AM Northwest ......

People First!

Today, BloggersUnite is hosting an online event entitled People First: Empowering People With Disabilities . I’ve been having unusually prominent symptoms from my lupus.  I always anticipate a ......

A Day of Empowerment

After about three weeks of the most painful headaches I’ve ever had, I’ve been a little overwhelmed with trying to make up all that time off.  I don’t know what brought them on......

Making our strength visible to ourselves and others

“What we call a symbol is a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possesses specific connotations in addition to its conventional and obvious meaning.”  (......

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